Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [317]
17 “Events are moving so fast”: New Yorker, May 12, 1940.
18 “Elizabethan zest for life”: Harold Nicolson, Spectator, May 17, 1940.
19 “How Winston thinks that he can be Prime Minister”: Amery, p. 615, May 11, 1940.
20 “conscious of a profound”: Churchill, Second World War, 1:526.
21 “David, sir, David!”: Sebag-Montefiore, p. 59.
22 “British troops have landed in Iceland”: Sir Michael Howard, personal recollection to the author, December 28, 2008.
23 “Perhaps the darkest day in English history”: Channon, p. 248.
24 In May 1940, while few influential figures: Rhodes-James.
25 “‘Keep your eye on Churchill’”: Gardiner, Pillars, p. 77.
26 “additional complication”: Collier’s, January 1939.
27 “the poor tank”: News of the World, April 14, 1938.
28 “the submarine will be mastered”: Gilbert, War Papers, Churchill to Neville Chamberlain, March 25, 1939.
29 “I feel we may compare the position”: Gilbert, War Papers, 1:568.
30 “It may well be”: Speech to the St. George’s Association, April 24, 1933.
31 “I am beginning to come round”: Amery, p. 584, March 14, 1940.
32 “Winston has not been nearly bold”: Amery, p. 617, May 11, 1940.
33 “head of school’s fag”: Private information to author.
34 “So at last that man”: Headlam, p. 197, May 10, 1940.
35 “The new War Cabinet”: Bond, p. 131.
36 “perfectly futile for war”: Roskill, Hankey, 3:464.
37 “May I wish you every possible”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 219.
38 “seemed well satisfied”: Eden, p. 98.
39 “In Winston’s eyes”: Moran, p. 275.
40 “He proved in this one short speech”: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 14, 1940.
41 “That smart, tough, dumpy little man”: Time, May 27, 1940.
42 “We have for twenty years”: Richardson, p. 77.
43 “purely physical soldiers”: Lee, p. 216, January 9, 1941.
44 “not too happy about the military”: Colville, p. 131, May 14, 1940.
45 “I think myself that the battle”: Kimball, 1:37, May 15, 1940.
46 “The summer landscape”: Quoted in Horne, pp. 286–87.
47 “Harold, I think it would be wise”: Nicolson, p. 86, May 17, 1940.
48 “superb confidence”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 219.
49 “What a beautiful handwriting”: Colville, p. 184, July 3, 1940.
50 Embracing his staff as: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 219.
51 “I went up to my father’s bedroom”: Quoted in Gilbert, Finest Hour, p. 358.
52 “It must be remembered that the defence”: BNA, INF1/264, May 19, 1940.
53 “Militarily, I did not see how”: Eden, p. 107, May 24, 1940.
54 “About time number 17”: Ibid.
55 “sole remaining bargaining counter”: Kimball, 1:40, May 20, 1940.
56 “the government should at once”: New Statesman, May 25, 1940.
57 “Nobody minds going down”: Pownall, 1:327.
58 “Can nobody prevent him”: Ibid., 1:333, May 23, 1940.
59 “Everything is complete confusion”: Cadogan, p. 189, May 25, 1940.
60 A Gallup poll showed Americans: Gallup, May 29, 1940.
61 “too rambling and romantic”: Cadogan, p. 190, May 26, 1940.
62 “He is still thinking of his books”: Colville, p. 132, May 16, 1940.
63 he “would be addressing”: Ibid., p. 118, May 7, 1940.
64 “so great … it is madness”: Quoted in Lawlor, p. 96.
65 “It is not the descendants”: Harold Nicolson, Spectator, May 17, 1940.
66 “I think they’re going to beat us”: Sheridan, p. 91.
67 “The decision affected us all”: Ismay, p. 131.
68 “It is a drop in the bucket”: Morgenthau diary, Morgenthau Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
69 “The least costly solution in both life”: New York Herald Tribune, May 24, 1940.
70 “I thought Winston talked”: Halifax diary, Borthwick Institute, York, May 27, 1940.
71 “His world is built upon the primacy”: Berlin, p. 6.
72 “Some of Mr. Churchill’s broadcasts”: Waugh, pp. 222–23.
CHAPTER TWO: THE TWO DUNKIRKS
73 “And so here we are back”: Pownall, 1:351–52.
74 “on reasonable conditions”: Reynolds, In Command, p. 170.
75 “He was quite magnificent”: Dalton, May 28, 1940.
76 “I hope you realise your distinction”: Horsfall, p. 142.
77 “There was a limit to what any of us”: Private information to the author, 2001.
78 “It does seem